[Ansonia Apartments, New York City] – Historic Print
![[Ansonia Apartments, New York City], [between 1900 and 1906] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8c/8ca441e0b545-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: [Ansonia Apartments, New York City], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Ansonia Apartments, New York City]
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Few buildings on Broadway were as ornate as the Ansonia, a residential hotel on the Upper West Side whose mansard roofs and sculpted facade rose between 73rd and 74th Streets. Developer William E. D. Stokes built it in stages around the turn of the twentieth century, and it was marketed to residents who wanted hotel service with the privacy of an apartment. The Detroit Publishing Company, which sold views of American cities and landscapes, recorded the building on a large glass negative in the early 1900s, while construction was still recent. Among the building's well-known residents was the opera singer Enrico Caruso.
| Created / published | [between 1900 and 1906] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | and dup" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018533. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Notes | Title and date from Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). 2828 |
| Subjects | Ansonia Hotel (New York, N.Y.) Apartment houses. Hotels.United States--New York (State)--New York. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 800 × 980 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-62043 |
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